An opening ceremony was held on Monday at city hall to demonstrate what this 1.5 billion won project does. They display when the buses are scheduled to arrive, and residents will also be able to use the internet or their cellphones to track where the buses are. I first mentioned this in April, when their debut was scheduled for October.
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So where are Gwangju's?
Many bus stops in Gwangju have them. The one near my place does (but the one a block away doesn't). They're useful, but sometimes a bit, um, "creative" with the time. They also play a lot of GFN ads.
What always amazes me is how in Korea these things stay intact, whereas if they were placed in a UK bus stop they'd be vandalised/stolen within days.
None near my place that I've seen
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Yep, Phil, in the US, too. What'd probably happen is they'd build a big plexiglass container around it to protect it, and then people'd scratch it up and write on it. Or, they'd have to plaster it with signs that say
DON'T TOUCH. VIOLATORS WILL FACE $5,000 FIND AND UP TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON.
we have those here in Yeosu... they're pretty iffy and not all buses show up on the screen.
Some of these are solar powered too. Go Korea's Ecological Capital!
In Toronto we call this system the Next Vehicle Arrival System, or the NextBus system, and the messages to your cell are eAlerts.
Grey Island Systems International owns NextBus, which I believe is located in Cali
http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/agencySelector.jsp
Grey Island owns another company called Interfleet that produces a real time, city wide map of all public transportation services. I haven't seen it in Korea or Canada.
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